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- Annotation
- Annotation tools include pen, arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, highlighter, blur, pixelate, counter, eraser, and eyedropper.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Annotations
- The capture overlay includes drawing, text, highlighting, blur, pixelation, counters, erasing, and color picking tools.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Browser extension
- Nogithub.com · read 24 Sep 2026
- Capture
- It supports region and monitor capture with multi-monitor and high-DPI handling, plus window selection capture on Windows.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Credentials
- Google Drive and Yandex Disk require OAuth access tokens, while Allwebs and Radikal Cloud require API keys; OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot’s plain-text settings file.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- PNG (file-save command example); clipboard copygithub.com · read 24 Sep 2026
- License
- EShot is released under the MIT License.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Linux limitation
- Other Linux desktops and compositors are unsupported and are unlikely to work correctly.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- OCR and search
- EShot uses Tesseract OCR and offers Google Lens or Yandex Images visual search for a selected region.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- OCR and translation
- Tesseract OCR can extract text, which users can copy or hand off to Google Translate in a browser.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Visual search uploads the selected region to a temporary public image host, and the README advises against using it for private or sensitive screenshots.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- EShot is a native screenshot tool for Windows and Linux with annotation, OCR, visual search, uploads, pinned captures, GIF recording, and video capture.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Recording
- EShot supports selected-region GIF recording and MP4 recording with configurable FPS, quality, duration, desktop audio, and microphone audio.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Redaction tools
- Nogithub.com · read 24 Sep 2026
- Security
- OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot's plain-text settings file.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to GitHub Discussions for questions and feature requests and GitHub Issues for bug reports.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Supported systems
- The project lists stable support for Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on Linux, and GNOME Wayland, with GNOME less broadly tested.github.com · read 11 Oct 2026
- Team collaboration
- Nogithub.com · read 24 Sep 2026
